A voicemail isn't enough.

It's what most of us are left with. Or what we'll have, if we don't act soon. This kit is how you change that.

Phone on a kitchen table showing a saved voicemail

Some of us still have time. Some of us only have what was saved. This is for both.

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The Founder

This is me and my mother.

Sondre as a child with his mother, both laughing cheek to cheek

I lost her when I was a kid.

It's been 15 years.

Mom in her 40s, calm portrait at a cafeteria table

I have photos. I have memories. I have a story I tell myself about who she was.

But the first thing I forgot was her voice.

That's the part nobody warns you about. Losing someone you love is the worst feeling there is. But forgetting them is worse. Their smell. Their laugh. The way they said your name. The sound they made when they said I love you. That's when grief becomes real pain. And it usually comes years after you think you've healed.

Sometimes I get this feeling like I didn't have a mom. I know I did. But it's been 15 years and the brain forgets.

This is the video.

I have one video of her.

She's filming me ice skating. I'm a kid. She says my name. I fall. She laughs.

That's it. That's the whole video. Twenty seconds.

I've watched it more times than I can count, and I still cry every time. Not because I'm sad. Because I remember her. I can feel her again. She's here, and for those few seconds, she's not leaving me.

That video is why I built NOVAVO.

Sondre as a teenager holding his mother in a chair, both smiling

I knew what was coming. I held her while I still could. But I didn't know to record her. I didn't know that the smell would fade, the laugh would blur, the sound of her voice would slowly disappear from my head over the years until I had to play that one video to remember it was real.

I'm not selling you a product.

I'm telling you what I wish someone had told my family fifteen years ago.

Your mom is still here. Your dad is still here. Their voice is still here. You still have time. Don't wait for the diagnosis. Don't wait for the right moment. Don't wait until you have a free weekend.

Record them. Now. While you still can.

That's the whole thing.

— Thomas, founder of NOVAVO

Who this is for

1.

Recording one person.

Your mom. Your dad. Your husband. Your wife. The voice you hear every Sunday. Or the voice you'd give anything to hear again.
2.

Recording the people who built you.

Both parents. Grandparents. The aunt who raised you. While they're still here. Or while one of them still is.
3.

Capturing more than one generation.

Grandparents, in-laws, siblings, your kids. The whole family, not just the kit you can fit in a starter box.
4.

Working with what you have.

A voicemail. A short video. A story you've held onto. The kit gives them somewhere to live.

The hard part was never the recording. It was sitting down to do it.

Hand holding a salmon-colored NOVAVO prompt card

Pick a card. Any card.

150 questions, sorted from easy to deep. You don't need to know what to ask. Just pick one and read it out loud. They'll do the rest.

Voice recorder on a table between two coffee cups during a recording session

Press one button.

No apps. No WiFi. No setup. No tech to teach anyone. You press, they talk. Twenty hours of recording on a single charge.

Phone showing the Legacy Book Early Life chapter on a kitchen table

Their stories, kept.

Everything they say gets organized into chapters. Your whole family listens from any device. No subscriptions. No expiration. Their voice, kept. Not scattered across your camera roll, one phone upgrade away from gone.

"I replay my dead dad's voicemail every morning before I get out of bed. For five seconds he's still alive."

Maya, 34 two years after

Every kit is built from these three pieces.

Buy one of each. Build something bigger. Or build from what you already have.

Three stacks of NOVAVO prompt cards in salmon, red, and grey

No. 01

150 prompt cards per deck

Sorted by life chapter. Easy to deep.

NOVAVO voice recorder on a warm wooden surface

No. 02

One-button recorder

No apps. No WiFi. 20+ hours on a charge.

Phone showing the Legacy Book interface propped against a mug

No. 03

Digital Legacy Book one per person

Organized forever. Shareable with up to 4 family members.

From the prompt cards

Press play. This is what one question sounds like.

A real recording from a real family, using one of the kit's prompt cards.

"What's the moment you realized you loved her?"

That was one question. The kit has 150.

Build your kit in 4 steps.

Takes 90 seconds. The kit is built around your family.

1. How many people are you recording?
2. How many decks of prompt cards?
3. Want to add a memorial plaque?
4. Review your kit and check out.

Build Your Kit

"I leave my phone recording during Sunday dinners. Nobody notices. I have hours of my parents just being themselves now."

Daniel, 41 Sunday dinners

This works even if

No. 01

"I can barely get through the day. I don't have the energy for a project."

This isn't a project. It's one card after dinner. Ten minutes. You pick a question, press the button, and they talk. You don't plan it, schedule it, or prepare for it. You just do one. That's enough.
No. 02

"I'm afraid I'll cry and ruin it."

You might cry. Most people do. That's fine. The recording doesn't care. Some of the best recordings have a cracked voice or a long pause. That's not ruining it. That's what makes it real. Your grandchildren won't hear the tears. They'll hear their voice.
No. 03

"I don't want to make them feel like they're dying."

You're not asking them to prepare for death. You're asking them to tell you about their life. There's a difference, and most parents feel it immediately. One user told us her dad said, "I've been waiting 40 years for someone to ask me about this."
No. 04

"They're not tech-savvy."

They never touch a screen. One button on a recorder. No apps, no WiFi, no accounts, no passwords. It sits on the table and does one thing. You manage everything else after.
No. 05

"We tried StoryWorth and it didn't work."

StoryWorth asks them to write. Most parents give up because writing feels like homework. This asks them to talk. No typing, no weekly emails, no deadlines. Just a question and a conversation. The difference is the difference between a term paper and a phone call.
No. 06

"What if I can't bring myself to listen?"

You might not be ready right away. That's okay. The recordings aren't going anywhere. They're saved, organized, and waiting. For next week, next year, or whenever your daughter asks what Grandpa sounded like. Having them and not being ready is a thousand times better than being ready and having nothing.

Your kids will ask one day. Some of them already are.

Some of us are getting ahead of the silence.

Some of us are filling it in after the fact.

Either way, this is the work.

They'll ask what Grandpa sounded like. What Grandma laughed about. Whether you remember the way she said your name.

You'll have something to play. Or you won't.

This won't heal the grief. But it removes the silence. One less "I should have." That's what this is.